Wed, December 18, 2013
By Sara Piasecki Earlier this year, when the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation announced the state’s Ten Most Endangered Historic Properties for 2013, they included “Historic Canneries (Statewide)” as location number 10. Responding to this call, the Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center tasked its summer interns with creating a guide to historic photographs of Alaskan canneries held in the Museum’s archives. The resulting 16-page document has already been updated three times...
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Mon, December 09, 2013
Over the past several weeks we’ve shared with you images of Alaska- and Arctic-themed board games. Today, in the final installment of the series…The PIPELINE!Here’s “Alaska Pipeline: The Energy Crisis Game,” produced by an Anchorage company called Pipeline Games, Ltd., in 1973:Each of the game’s four characters—the roughneck, the professor, the tycoon, and the bespectacled woman—teach important facts about the pipeline, all designed to engender support for the project that was then still in its pre-construction planning phase.Here’s the “Alaska...
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Wed, December 04, 2013
by Jeff Dickrell As an avid eBay troller, I have developed a skill for scanning the multitude of item titles, looking for anything out of the ordinary (https://seakayaker.org/estate-sale-ebay-wanderings-piece-aleut-history/). I am looking for, mainly, old maps, prints, images and anything to do with Unangan iqyak (kayaks). I have been pretty successful, picking up the odd print, the old postcard, lots of stuff where I am the only bidder, because I seem to be the only one interested. Who needs a 1909...
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Tue, December 03, 2013
By: Pat RoppelGeorge Hamilton built a salmon saltery at what became Klawock sometime around 1869. Sometime in late 1876, Hamilton disposed of his trading and fishing post to the San Francisco firm of Sisson, Wallace and Co. As a result, the first salmon cannery to operate in Alaska was built.In December 1877, businessmen incorporated, under the laws of California, the North Pacific Packing and Trading Company. The incorporators were W. C. Lynde, A. W. Sisson, Clark W. Crocker, W. H....
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Wed, November 27, 2013
It is remarkable that the artist more- or-less depicts Kodiak Alutiiq in this label. Note the bifurcated bow of the kayak, the gutskin kamleikas, and the conical-shaped hats. Kodiak Historical Society. (Note: This is republished from the Baranov Museum's blog, www.blogspot.com/baranovmuseum) By: Anjuli Grantham I admit it. I have lusted over this Alaska Improvement Company can from the moment I read that Kodiak resident Nick Troxell had purchased it on e-bay. In fact, I went so far as to save a place...
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